Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
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Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
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Re: Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
#2Sounds like good damage control now.
First he made fun of Aaron and even this post almost comes off as sarcasm (although who knows if Jason's going to stick to his word, so it may very well be sarcasm). But the comment on the blog makes it seem like people at Mahalo actually care about not being branded as a content-less SEO cesspool.
Kudos to Aaron for making Mahalo right its wrongs!
Re: Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
#3Sounds like good damage control now. First he made fun of Aaron and even this post almost comes off as sarcasm (although who knows if Jason's going to stick to his word, so it may very well be sarcasm). But the comment on the blog makes it seem like people at Mahalo actually care about not being branded as a content-less SEO cesspool. Kudos to Aaron for making Mahalo right its wrongs!
Don't give kudos, till you see results.
Re: Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
#4Sounds like good damage control now. First he made fun of Aaron and even this post almost comes off as sarcasm (although who knows if Jason's going to stick to his word, so it may very well be sarcasm). But the comment on the blog makes it seem like people at Mahalo actually care about not being branded as a content-less SEO cesspool. Kudos to Aaron for making Mahalo right its wrongs!
Don't give kudos, till you see results.
Surely, Aaron deserves kudos for atleast bringing the issue to light and causing trouble!
Re: Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
#5I thought Aaron went a bit personal in the last rant; but if it works (and was supposed to work rather than just be malicious) then fair enough.
Lots of ifs though.
Re: Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
#6The tone of Jason's responses to Aaron is so different than his normal writing. It doesn't feel authentic Calacanis.
Re: Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
#7Re: Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
#8in my opinion, the slimiest thing that mahalo is doing is scraping content and then nofollowing the attribution links. nofollow was designed for outgoing links that a publisher cannot vouch for - ie links in blog discussions.
but mahalo is nofollowing attribution links to content that THEY have decided to scrape.
jason is conflating two things when he says "Do you think we should remove nofollow from our links? we added this to avoid the problem of SEOs coming in and turning Mahalo into a link farm"
you can nofollow links created by users but you should not nofollow links to content that YOU decided was worthy of inclusion on your site.
it seems very clear to me, that this guy is playing dumb.
Re: Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
#9I thought Aaron went a bit personal in the last rant; but if it works (and was supposed to work rather than just be malicious) then fair enough. Lots of ifs though.
Agreed. I wish Aaron Wall had not went personal in his last post. Ironically, Aaron Wall called out Calacanis the way Calacanis usually frames debates.
I am actually learning a ton about SEO from this debate. I wish both sides would frame the debate with just the facts and keep the name calling out of it. (IIRC, Calacanis called out SEOs a couple years back.)
Re: Jason Calacanis' response to Aaron Wall
#10The tone of Jason's responses to Aaron is so different than his normal writing. It doesn't feel authentic Calacanis.
Agree...yet, it's a catch-22 for him. If he is his typical self, he gets attacked for trying to make it a joke(as he makes a lot of things). If he is serious(as he appears to be now), he is inauthentic.